Former boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter has died, aged 76. The American middleweight, whose wrongful conviction for murder inspired Bob Dylan's 1975 song 'Hurricane' and a 1999 film starring Denzel ...

Former boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter has died at the age of 76 after a battle with prostate cancer. Carter spent nearly 20 years in jail after he was wrongly convicted of a triple murder in 1966.

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TORONTO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. professional boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who spent 19 years in prison for murder and then was released after it was determined he did not get a fair trial, ...

Middleweight boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was wrongly convicted of a triple murder in a Paterson bar and imprisoned for 19 years. On Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 15, Paterson’s City Council passed a ...

PATERSON — Rubin “Hurricane” Carter — the boxer who spent 19 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of a triple murder in Paterson — became a national icon for people who see racism in the ...

TORONTO (AP) — Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the boxer whose wrongful murder conviction became an international symbol of racial injustice, died Sunday. He was 76. He had been stricken with prostate ...